Publications & Reports

Stay connected with CIS research happening on campus and around the world.

The Alchemist statue at MIT

Latest issue of précis—the year in review

The MIT Center for International Studies magazine, features essays by our scholars, covers the wide range of Center activities, and tracks the accomplishments of our research community.

Country

Region

Topic

Cummings, Peter M. M, Alejandra Mizala, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Chile’s Inclusion Law: The Arduous Drive to Regulate an Unequal Education System, 2006-19.” Educational Review (Birmingham) 77, no. 3 (2025): 764–89.

Lazer, David MJ, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger et al. "The science of fake news." Science 359, no. 6380 (2018): 1094-1096.

Papa, Mihaela, Zhen Han, and Frank O’Donnell. “The Dynamics of Informal Institutions and Counter-Hegemony: Introducing a BRICS Convergence Index.” European Journal of International Relations 29, no. 4 (2023): 960–89.

Heginbotham, Eric, Samuel Leiter, and Richard J. Samuels. "Pushing on an open door: Japan’s evolutionary security posture." The Washington Quarterly 46, no. 2 (2023): 47-67.

Apaydin, Fulya, Ben Ross Schneider, Marius R Busemeyer, and Geoffrey Wood. “On Merve Sancak’s Institutions, Skills, Production Regimes and the Near Periphery, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022.” Socio-Economic Review 21, no. 3 (2023): 1835–47.

Lin-Greenberg, Erik. "Evaluating escalation: Conceptualizing escalation in an era of emerging military technologies." The Journal of Politics 85, no. 3 (2023).

Imai, Kosuke, In Song Kim, and Erik H Wang. “Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data.” American Journal of Political Science 67, no. 3 (2023): 587–605.

Charnysh, Volha, Eugene Finkel, and Scott Gehlbach. “Historical Political Economy: Past, Present, and Future.” Annual Review of Political Science 26, no. 1 (2023): 175–91.

Hassan, Mai. “Coordinated Dis-Coordination.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (2024): 163–77.

Wood, Elizabeth A. “Crimea in My Heart: Visualizing Putin’s Resurgent Empire in 2014.” In Picturing Russian Empire, edited by Valerie A. Kivelson, Sergei A. Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger. Oxford University Press, 2023.